Mobile development takes another big step forward with this message queueing implementation for Palm and PocketPC.
This new product offers refactoring and coding shortcuts for the Visual Studio .NET developer - as long as they're working in C#. If that's you, ReSharper could be essential.
iRise promises to bridge the gaps between business analyst and developer. The new version adds WebLogic code generation to the mix.
ADT is covering the busy summer season of vendor and analyst conferences. Here are some of the top stories from major shows so far.
Watch for J2EE standard specs to lose luster as leaders IBM and BEA try to lock customers into WebSphere and WebLogic with proprietary features. Now it is .NET vs. IBM vs. BEA.
A look at software tools and technologies on the market.
Steve Garone, managing partner at The AlignIT Group LLC, said there are six requirements to keep in mind when evaluating WSM products.
Changes in the computer room are afoot, and it is not just about clusters. The emerging ‘virtualization’ of software platforms will spread apps in new ways.
With offices in 35 countries, Future Electronics, the third largest electronic distributor in the world, has developed its own enterprise apps to run its operations. But the firm needed a way to integrate all of its global systems.
Lydian Trust is a mid-sized financial services company based in Palm Beach, Fla. Although it was only founded in 1999, its services, including private banking and wealth management, had expanded by mid-2002 to the point where it had outgrown its original IT systems built on Microsoft Windows .COM. John Studdard’s job was to move to the .NET platform with a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) that would allow development teams to build Web services applications without having to worry about the basic XML-based standards or architecture.
At NxTrend Technology Inc., Web services allowed the company to continue to use its established transaction engine while putting on a most “modern” face for other systems, indicated Ross Elliott, vice president and chief strategy officer at the Colorado Springs, Colo.-based supply distribution software house.
Mike Gunderloy reviews Iron Speed Designer 1.6.4 and IntelliView 2.2, Designer
Keith Brophy, CTO at Robertson Research Institute, Saginaw, Mich., has been working on a Web services application whose objective has special relevance -- saving lives.
We are at the stage now where Web services war stories should be available. A close look shows this new technology catching on.
There’s no shame in expressing skepticism that SOA is nirvana, but our August Cover Story does find reasons for optimism that the technology could benefit IT development and integration projects.
The biggest stories in recent application development history -- Amazon.com and Google -- are so big that they are pretty much hidden. Both applications required a big helping of chutzpah to happen at all. And both disrupted existing industries, creating whole new ones.
Used right, XML can be a huge help to developers writing applications for a global audience. Here are some tips that can help to ensure global success.
Firm’s CTO said he considered the more typical SOA Web-based front end but determined that HTML and the current state of Web services technology was not up to tracking jet flights in real-time.
Development managers must react quickly to any sign of scope creep. Here is some advice for working with your customers and for negotiating your way through any potential problems that might slow or halt development.